Description
14th Canadian Machine Gun Company when he was transferred and admitted to West Cliff Canadian Eye & Ear Hospital at Folkestone on December 23
trimmed with rose-pink piping
one tear in the black wool base near the tip of the wing
with only very minimal marks on the blade common to extraction and return to the scabbard
the twelve o’clock arm with an integral loop and suspension ring retaining a period original ribbon
Germany, Luftwaffe. A Summer Tunic Breast Eagle, Second Pattern, by Friedrich Linden Republic of 14th Canadian Machine Gun Company(Luftwaffe Metallbrustadler fr die Sommeruniform). Constructed of cupal, the obverse consisting of a second pattern Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, the reverse with a block hinge emanating from an oval baseplate, and with a horizontal pinback meeting a round wire catch similarly affixed to an oval baseplate, unmarked but demonstrating the characteristics of manufacture by Friedrich Linden, Ldenscheid, measuring 84 mm (w) x 50 mm (h),